I haven't actually written in live journal for over 6 months, but I was thinking the other day "you know, I don't have anything that's just for journalling in general. I have my business blog, my work blog, but not a personal one. Oh yeah, I forgot about livejournal ( Read more... )

I now know what all of this means:

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Welcome to Mike's Crazy World

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
-Mark Twain

This paragraph is now styled according to my css document.  Amazing, huh? ( Read more... )

For three years I worked terrible, awful office jobs merely trying to survive. I was scared to death to run out of money and kept trying desperately to find "ways out" of a mediocre and depressing professional existence. I continued to justify this life I led by lashing out at the economy, difficult conditions for post-college Psych majors, ( Read more... )

Most of my family (and Annette's) are on the east coast. Annette's mom lives in Brighton Beach in NYC and her sister in Boston. My mom lives in Framingham (which is about 20 miles from Boston) and my dad lives in Manhattan. One would think this was a perfect thing for us, since we can go visit family together and it gives us a place to live at ( Read more... )

Post a disgusting picture of slugs ( Read more... )

I'm at work.

Just had this wonderful fantasy about getting up from my chair and walking out the front door, getting in the car, and leaving. In this fantasy my boss calls on my phone and asks "where did you go?"

I say, "I went home."

They say, "why?"

I say, "because I don't like it there. What a silly question!"

Time to check in - it's been almost half a month and I usually write on this more. However, The Great Office Escape has taken up a lot of my blogging time and I've been working 50 hours per week in addition to that ( Read more... )

It is up and running!

Check it out:

http://www.thegreatofficeescape.com

Enjoy!

I am starting a new blog/website to separate my regular entries (here) from my discussions about the workplace (and breaking free from it), finance, money management and entrepreneurial pursuits ( Read more... )

What is it all about, anyway? Statistics and pre-formed notions aside, everyone seems to have a different "money personality." I would argue that there are as may variations in how people treat their assets (or lack thereof) as there are personalities. But, like in personality typology, it is possible to lump people together into a few ( Read more... )